Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) is also known as ‘the strip technique’. It requires a much greater degree of surgical expertise to be performed successfully. A small strip of skin is removed from the back or sides of the head, containing the donor hair. This allows many hairs to be removed simultaneously. The hairs are then removed from the strip in follicular units, cleaned and placed into the holding solution.

The surgeon then creates the recipient sites in the areas of hair loss, and implants the units in the same way as the FUE procedure.

Sutures are required in the donor area, to be removed after 10-14 days. Like most comparable surgical procedures, exercise or vigorous physical activity is discouraged for 30 days after the transplant.